On the 17th of November 2013 we will be releasing the 21 Day Meditation Recovery to listen to or download from this site. It's a short course in meditation to accompany our book, Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha's Teachings to Overcome Addiction, which will be published in January. Each meditation is about 15 minutes long. It's a bite-sized length - great if find it hard to make time or if you struggle with longer meditations. The meditations cover a range of topics including mindfulness, loving-kindness, ethics, wisdom and mantras. All the meditations have some background music which can help you to stay focussed on the subject of the meditation.

You can follow the course as the meditations are made available from the 17th of November. If you will be doing the Urban Retreat, this could be a good way of continuing your practice beyond the retreat itself. If you are not able to follow the complete course as it appears, don't worry, you can come back later and download or listen to all the meditations in your own time. They will all be free for downloading. We hope you will enjoy the meditations.

We would like to thank the following people for generously donating their time to make these meditations possible. They offer you their gift of creativity. Advayaprabha (sugatisound), Ana Hernandez, Dharmasakya, Dhiraprabha, Candradasa, Kate Munger, founder of Threshold Choir, Helen Greenspan, Jayakara, Laura Fannon, Nina Wise, Saraka, Sugati, Phap Ho, The Alaska None Sanghasiha, Karunachitta, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vandanajyoti, and Yeshe Chodron (Laurie Lesk).

The Songsters who provided the singing and chanting say:
"We are a group of women Buddhists, ordained into the Triratna Community and we have been meeting every week to talk and practise together for ten years now. We begin every meeting with a song because singing together brings us into harmonious connection with each other in a way which goes beyond words. We are listening and breathing together as we sing and we hope that something of the warmth of our friendship comes to you as you listen to the songs in these meditations. With best wishes to all who hear this offering from Dhiraprabha, Dharmasakya, Jayakara, Saraka, Sugati and Vandanajyoti."

The opportunity to provide comfort and peace is a great motivation for Threshold Choir singers. But as our founder Kate Munger says, “Who benefits? Of course our clients and their families…, but the benefit to us, the singers, has been the big, amazing surprise. We are healed by our songs before the vibrations ever leave our bodies. We are blessed first and then we send out the blessing.‎‎‎
For more information about the Threshold Choir: http://thresholdchoir.org/

All tracks have been mixed by Advayaprabha (Paul Keeler) of Sugati Sound: www.sugatisound.org.uk

If you are able to please help with our new book - click below
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-eight-step-recovery-using-the-buddha-s-teachings-to-overcome-addiction/x/3756380

If you are member of this space on the Buddhist Centre Online you will receive notification of the start of the 21 Day Meditation Recovery. If you are not a member already and would like to receive notification, you can sign up here: thebuddhistcentre.com/register and then click + follow on our space.